Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.